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Dictionary trouble in 4.80

I am a loooong-time Pmail user and just installed PMail 4.80 on a new laptop. I'm noticing a change in the use of the dictionary when I run spell checker (which I do on every outgoing message -- great feature). In past versions, if a frequently used word (like my first name, Gislin) was flagged as misspelled, I simply clicked on "Add" and the word was never flagged again.
Not so in 4.80, where none of the words i have been trying to Add today (several dozen) seems to have "stuck." Clearly, something changed, and not for the better.
Does anyone else have the same experience?


I am a loooong-time Pmail user and just installed PMail 4.80 on a new laptop. I'm noticing a change in the use of the dictionary when I run spell checker (which I do on every outgoing message -- great feature). In past versions, if a frequently used word (like my first name, Gislin) was flagged as misspelled, I simply clicked on "Add" and the word was never flagged again. Not so in 4.80, where none of the words i have been trying to Add today (several dozen) seems to have "stuck." Clearly, something changed, and not for the better. Does anyone else have the same experience?
edited Jun 26 '22 at 12:47 am

This is a quote from a post by Brian Fluet to the PM-WIN mailing list at https://listserv.ua.edu:



The Spellchecker has a bug in which the local added
dictionary is getting wiped out. Empty file is being
created "USRDICT5.PMD". Solution is to restore file from
backup, and mark flag as read-only. That will keep words
added to dictionary, but will not allow new words to be
added.



This is a quote from a post by Brian Fluet to the PM-WIN mailing list at <https://listserv.ua.edu>: > The Spellchecker has a bug in which the local added dictionary is getting wiped out. Empty file is being created "USRDICT5.PMD". Solution is to restore file from backup, and mark flag as read-only. That will keep words added to dictionary, but will not allow new words to be added.
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